Haunted Half Cellar

In regards to these basement photos, the following is what happened:
The exact date escapes me, but I know the photo was taken sometime this
past January, 2002. The house located on the outskirts of both Hilton
and North Greece N.Y. and was built in 1968. My parents and I moved into
the house when it was brand new. Almost immediately strange things
started occurring. My Uncle visiting from Ohio scared me to death one
day after school, I did not know he was coming to visit nor did I know
that when I got into the house he was there, until he peeked around the
corner and when I screamed so did he. It seemed that about an hour
earlier, he was resting when he heard running footsteps up and down the
stairs and in other portions of the house. As he investigated the house
and found no one there he locked himself in the bedroom... at least
until I showed up. Then he told me what had happened to him. He was very
shaken and his color was very ashen. That happened in 1968.

Since that time to present various strange occurrences have become
normal. This incident in the basement though really scared me. Just my
mother and I were in the house and I went to the basement to get rid of
cobwebs. Using an old light weight vacuum cleaner I started to clean the
ceiling. It was warm down there and the furnace was running on and off a
lot. I must have finished half of the basement when I started seeing my
breath. I turned off the vacuum and I heard the furnace running. All of
a sudden this bone chilling cold went through me. I went over to the
furnace and felt the heat coming out of the vent. Right next to the
furnace was the entrance to the half cellar in which these two pictures
were taken. I was somehow drawn to look in there. Not seeing anything,
and the cold by now was almost disabling me, I ran upstairs and grabbed
my camera. It was very warm upstairs. I ran back down in the basement
and poked the digital camera through the entrance and fired off two
pictures. I had to wait until I got home to access my computer, and when
I did I found these orbs and a huge whatever towards the back of the
space.

Click on picture for larger view.

Another strange thing also happened when I was taking these
pictures. Although the rechargeable batteries were almost new and fully charged
(I can get approximately 50 pictures per charge), after the last of the two
pictures were taken the camera went dead. I stayed at the house for about an
hour afterwards (upstairs), in which time I tried to turn the camera on...
nothing. On my way home I tried a couple more times and still got nothing. Then,
almost home, I tried again and the camera fired up.

Later on I counted the number of pictures I wasted with flash. I took 47
shots, which means the batteries were fully charged and stayed that way until I
wasted the energy. Attempts to take pictures in the basement after that with my
daughter proved futile also.

What I would like to do is spend a wakeful night with cameras, video, and
other equipment with live people. My mother now locks herself in her
bedroom at night and leaves the TV on because she hears something walking the
halls and some low talking sounds outside the door and walls of her room.
Personally, besides that one time in the basement, I witnessed a vortex with my
daughter. We were both walking the upstairs hall when we saw this huge dust like
vortex come out of the bathroom, down the hall, down the stairs, and turn right
into the kitchen. After we recovered from shock we ran to the kitchen and asked
my mother and my wife if they were alright and if they had seen anything. They
were alright and they had not seen anything, however it was a hot day and
suddenly and for a brief moment they felt an ice cold breeze go by them.

One more thing regarding the basement: Along the left side of the photo is
the fireplace cleanout door. Something there looks like a golden cross. I can't
take a good picture of it and everyone is afraid to enter into the half cellar
-- including myself.